Foundations for Health Promotion

3. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7020-2965-3
Verlag: Saunders

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 246 mm x 189 mm

Reihe: Public Health and Health Promotion

Hugely popular with students, Health Promotion is now in its third edition, and has been thoroughly updated to provide the theoretical framework that is vital for health promotion. It offers a foundation for practice that encourages students and practitioners to identify opportunities for health promotion in their area of work.

Zielgruppe

All health care professionals who have health promotion or public health as the whole or part of their remit. These include:
- health promotion specialists
- health improvement officers
- health visitors
- Community and primary health nurses (practice nurses, health visitors, district nurses, school nurses)
- Public health professionals (in NHS & local government e.g. housing, environment)
- Social workers, teachers, environmental health officers
- Community and youth workers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naidoo, Jennie

Wills, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents PART 1: THE THEORY OF HEALTH PROMOTION 1. Concepts of health 2. Influences on health 3. Measuring health 4. Defining health promotion 5. Models and approaches to health promotion 6. Ethical issues in health promotion 7. The politics of health promotion PART 2: STRATEGIES & METHODS 8. Developing personal skills 9. Strengthening community action 10. Using media in health promotion 11. Re-orienting health services 12. Developing healthy public policy PART 3: SETTINGS FOR HEALTH PROMOTION 13. Health promotion in schools 14. Health promotion in the workplace 15. Health promotion in neighbourhoods 16. Health promotion in primary health care and hospitals 17. Health promotion in prisons PART 4: IMPLEMENTING HEALTH PROMOTION 18. Assessing health needs 19. Planning health promotion interventions 20. Evaluating health promotion Glossary Index

Über Autor(innen)

Naidoo, Jennie
Dr Jennie Naidoo BSc, MSc, PGDip, PGCE is Principal Lecturer, Health Promotion and Public Health, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Wills, Jane
Professor Jane Wills BA, MA, MSc, PGCE is Professor of Health Promotion, London South Bank University, London, UK